I have close ties with someone well connected in the Raptors organization and word on the grapevine has it that the Raptors are very, very close to acquiring the 8th pick from the Detroit Pistons. He has no idea whom or what the raps are giving up but from the sounds of it, this is almost a done deal.

i've always liked rip, but i don't know how he'll react to being a bench player on a losing team. do we have enough TPE left to take his contract? if not, i could see a package of amir and Calderon working. i'd say walker/knight with either jan, biyombo, leonard or even tristan would be pretty exciting.

They are NOT sold on Enes Kanter and word has it he is really 22 not 20 years old.

for the 5th pick, i think that seems right good.
for the 8th, i don't think bc would take another risk at a barg 2.0. LOL.
vesely, i don't know about him,
but betwen leonard and TT, as a franchise i would take a the hometown boy over anyother aspect.

i've always liked rip, but i don't know how he'll react to being a bench player on a losing team. do we have enough TPE left to take his contract? if not, i could see a package of amir and Calderon working. i'd say walker/knight with either jan, biyombo, leonard or even tristan would be pretty exciting.

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Originally Posted by 'trane

rip and #8 for tpe and barbosa works. starting to get a bit of wood about that possibiity... unfortunately there's pretty much no chance of something that good happening to us...

@Jackson

re: TPE

It depends on whether Colangelo used part of the Bosh TPE on Bayless, or whether he used a small TPE from another transaction (maybe he had one from the phoenix trade?)

Rip's salary next year is 12, 600. If the Raps used part of the Bosh TPE on Bayless, and I think I read that B.C did that, then the TPE is NOT big enough to absorb Rip's salary. It falls just short.

@'trane

You cannot combine a TPE and a player's salary to trade for a single player. Yes, it seems like teams combine TPEs and players, but it's because they complete trades in stages, although the trades get reported at the same time. They are filed with the league in a different manner.

So, Barbosa + TPE does not work for Rip. The Raps could absorb salary and save Detroit money by doing something similar, though.

For example, the Raps could trade Calderon for Rip. Then use the TPE to absorb another ugly contract.